It’s not just that sea levels are rising. Scientists believe fossil fuel extraction and river engineering are also factors ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

Organic matter carried in rivers to the Russian part of the Arctic Ocean may be creating more clouds and keeping the region ...

The University of California Irvine study examined deltas around the globe and found that groundwater depletion is the predominant cause of coastal delta loss. However, the Mississippi River Delta and ...

From the Nile to the Mississippi, sinking land is compounding sea-level rise. A new study pinpoints where deltas are dropping ...

Satellite analysis finds major deltas sinking faster than sea-level rise, with groundwater use and urbanisation to blame ...

A study published in Nature shows that many of the world's major river deltas are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, ...